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I remember, as they worked, D'ri calmed himself with the low-sung, familiar music of: Li too rul I oorul I oorul I ay. They had just finished when the cock crew. "Holler, ye gol-dum little cuss!" D'ri shouted as he went over to him. "Can't no snookin' wolf crack our bones fer us. Peeled 'em thet 's what we done tew 'em! Tuk 'n' knocked 'em head over heels. Judas Priest!
The island was New Hanover, and, with the northerly breeze then blowing, I knew we should be there in twenty-four hours. So I made up my mind to try the place; for Rul was a thoroughly trustworthy fellow, and I knew I could depend on him. "My mate was a young American named Ted Merriman, a native of New London, Connecticut, a fine sailorman, and a good navigator.
'Yes, said Dick, a little disconcerted by the excessive buoyancy of spirits which his employer displayed. 'With him now. 'With him now! cried Brass; 'Ha ha! There let 'em be, merry and free, toor rul rol le. Eh, Mr Richard? Ha ha! 'Oh certainly, replied Dick. 'And who, said Brass, shuffling among his papers, 'who is the lodger's visitor not a lady visitor, I hope, eh, Mr Richard?
"Then," he went on, "this fellow Rul said that although he and the other natives on board were quite willing to go anywhere with me, he knew of a place only two days' sail away to the eastward where there was not only plenty of black-edge pearl-shell, but hawkbill turtle-shell as well.
They had long been shrilling themselves hoarse with their cries of "Sun' 'Eral'Jour'Wor rul'! Pape's!" before Glory woke and found herself alone.
"On the morning of the third day I went ashore with my gun to have a few hours' shooting on a large swamp, situated about three miles inland from the village. One of the natives had told Rul that there were great numbers of wild duck and plover there, and offered to guide me to the place; so, telling Merriman that I would be back in time for dinner, I started with the guide.
His name was Rul, and he was not only a good seaman and an expert diver, but spoke fluently nearly a score of Melanesian and Micronesian dialects. On the evening of the day that the cutter left Callie Harbour, on Admiralty Island, Yorke called his six men together, and told them that he was very undecided what to do.
I should have done the same for the natives had I had the time, especially for Rul, but I had not. About dusk I brought to, just off the Cape, and dropped them over the side one after another only just realising, ten minutes previously, that I was still stark naked!
My boatswain, too, was one of the right sort; and, as for the rest, although they were all natives, they were good seamen, and I had never had a sulky look from any one of them since they first shipped with me. "We anchored just off a village which Rul knew, and in a few minutes the people came off to us in crowds and filled the deck.
'Toor rul lol loo, gammon and spinnage, the frog he wouldn't, and high cockolorum, said the Dodger: with a slight sneer on his intellectual countenance. This was explanatory, but not satisfactory. Master Bates felt it so; and again said, 'What do you mean?
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